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NOCTUID^. 



Genus ATHAUMASTA nov. 



Thaumasta, Stand. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 79 (1871), non descr. nee Type. 

 Gistl. Crust. 1848 expressa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with hair in front, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; head 

 and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading 

 crests ; pectus and tibias clothed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base 

 only. Fore wing rather short and broad, the apex rectangular, the termen 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 5 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of disco- 

 cellulars, 6, 7 from upper angle or stalked ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectiuate with moderate branches to apex. 



A. Fore wing variegated with yello^v escpressa. 



B. F'ore wing not variegated with yellow siderigera. 



2559. Athaumasta expressa. 



Eumichiis expressa. Led. Verb. z.-b. Wien, 1855, p. 109, pi. 1. f. 8 ; Herr.- 



Schaff. Neue Schmett. f. 63 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 168. 

 Thaumasta ochracea, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1881, p. 410. 

 Thaumasta nana. Stand. Iris, ix. p. 241 (1896). 



c? . Head and thorax orange mixed with whitish and black 

 scales ; vertex of head and metathorax with pairs of black spots ; 

 teguloB with black band near upper edge ; tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen fuscous mixed with whitish, the anal tuft and 

 ventral surface whitish. Pore wing greyish white tinged in parts 

 with orange and irrorated with black ; subbasal line double at costa. 



Fig. 123. — Athaumasta exfressa, (^ . 



then single, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 black defined by white on inner side, excurved in submedian inter- 

 space and angled inwards on vein 1 and to inner margin ; claviform 

 indistinctly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with orange 

 centres and white annuli defined by black, the former rounded, open 

 above ; a waved medial line strongly excurved in cell ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a curved series of whitish 

 lunules defined by dentate black marks on inner side ; a terminal 



